Best Large Employer: Edward Jones
                    Edward Jones is an investment and financial services company serving long-term investors with investment guidance and balancing portfolios. Based in St. Louis,  Missouri,...                
            Best Small-Medium Employer: Welch Hornsby
                    Founded in 1988,  Welch Hornsby is a fee-only investment advisory firm with offices in Montgomery,  Birmingham and Charlotte,  North Carolina. As...                
            Navy’s Shock Rating Standards Lead to Austal Revamp, Write-off
                    It was a Fourth of July bottle rocket from Australia that sizzled through the living rooms of about 4, 000 shipyard workers,  not...                
            An Ownership Transition Option Rediscovered
                    Founded in 1982,  Huntsville-based Gleason Research Associates Inc. has built a specialized niche as a defense contractor in missile systems and engineering services....                
            The Pollinator
                    “See those bumblebees on the sunflowers?” Dr. George Koulianos asks underneath a blue sky near the southernmost tip of Alabama. “This is what I...                
            American Manufacturers Battle Chinese Scofflaws
                    When Business Alabama visited with him two years ago,  Milton Magnus III was hanging in there — up to his neck fighting illegal...                
            New Game Board for Overtime Pay
                    We spoke with Jenna Bedsole,  a specialist in labor and employment law,  to get her insights on recent federal policy changes that...                
            Lawrence County’s Fastest Son Gets His Own Home Stretch
                    German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s plan at the Berlin 1936 Olympics was to showcase the Aryan people as the world’s dominant race. Jesse Owens, ...                
            Spotlight on Calhoun & Talladega Counties
                    
Calhoun and Talladega counties, in northeast Alabama, are well known for attracting tourists by the thousands with their bountiful natural resources and NASCAR races,...                
            Bringing Home the Downtown Grocery
                    Downtown Birmingham’s expansive new 20 Mid Town development — which hosts a Publix supermarket,  Starbucks,  luxury apartments and other retail space —...                
             
             
		




